Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: comments before preprocessor directives
Message-ID: <1988May16.055803.16715@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: cpp
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2873@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16 May 88 05:58:03 GMT

> what is an ansi compliant c preprocessor supposed to do with
> 	#/*foo*/define	x y
> or
> 	/*foo*/#define	x y

X3J11 sayeth that comments vanish (more precisely, turn into a single space)
before preprocessor directives are even thought about.  Also that white space
may occur before or after the #.  So the two examples above are equivalent
and define x to be y.
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